top 50% hacker news stories for 2013-09-12

First Mechanical Gear Found in a Living Creature

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/the-first-gear-discovered-in-nature-15916433

13 years ago

641 upvotes – 183 comments

Twitter Files For IPO

http://allthingsd.com/20130912/twitter-files-for-ipo/?mod=atdtweet

13 years ago

447 upvotes – 223 comments

Dropbox opening my docs?

http://www.wncinfosec.com/dropbox-opening-my-docs/

13 years ago

410 upvotes – 125 comments

Putin: A Plea for Caution From Russia

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/opinion/putin-plea-for-caution-from-russia-on-syria.html

13 years ago

383 upvotes – 250 comments

Black Perl

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Perl

13 years ago

330 upvotes – 67 comments

Voyager 1 has been traveling for about a year through plasma between stars

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager20130912.html

13 years ago

325 upvotes – 79 comments

Show HN: Wit – Natural language for your app

https://wit.ai

13 years ago

321 upvotes – 95 comments

Shot tower

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_tower

13 years ago

269 upvotes – 79 comments

Cocktails for programmers

https://github.com/the-teacher/cocktails_for_programmers/blob/master/cocktails_for_programers.md

13 years ago

★ 2.2k
258 upvotes – 169 comments

H2 {position: sticky} [video]

https://air.mozilla.org/intern-presentation-ford

13 years ago

242 upvotes – 88 comments

"I have come to find out what it's like to be dumb."

http://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2013/09/stupid/

13 years ago

224 upvotes – 114 comments

Bruce Schneier has changed his PGP key to 4096 bits

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6376954

13 years ago

222 upvotes – 139 comments

How Chris McCandless Died

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/09/how-chris-mccandless-died.html

13 years ago

208 upvotes – 129 comments

Michael Dell buys back PC company he founded in $24.8bn deal

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/12/michael-dell-buys-back-pc-company-founded

13 years ago

204 upvotes – 118 comments

How Apple hides new functionality in iOS: isYoMamaWearsCombatBootsActive

https://github.com/JaviSoto/iOS7-Runtime-Headers/commit/6ccf9c4526992fec0dc414d48e4a3f7446e9822f#commitcomment-4059894

13 years ago

★ 979 Objective-C
200 upvotes – 115 comments

Apple’s Fingerprint ID May Mean You Can’t ‘Take the Fifth’

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/09/the-unexpected-result-of-fingerprint-authentication-that-you-cant-take-the-fifth/

13 years ago

182 upvotes – 135 comments

Coder for Raspberry Pi

http://googlecreativelab.github.io/coder/

13 years ago

164 upvotes – 33 comments

Phonebloks

http://phonebloks.com/

13 years ago

162 upvotes – 68 comments

Notes on Intel Microcode Updates

http://inertiawar.com/microcode/

13 years ago

161 upvotes – 32 comments

The Startup Life Is Not For Everyone

http://alexstechthoughts.com/post/61021544789/stop-trying-to-force-the-startup-life-on-everyone-it

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 85 comments

This Post Took 3 Years to Write

http://brawl.in/3-years-to-write

13 years ago

160 upvotes – 61 comments

Outlook.com now has IMAP

http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-outlook/archive/2013/09/12/outlook-com-now-with-imap.aspx

13 years ago

145 upvotes – 103 comments

Why Netflix should buy AMC

http://jasonevanish.com/2013/09/12/why-netflix-should-buy-amc/

13 years ago

144 upvotes – 91 comments

Linus on /dev/random: "We actually know what we are doing. You don't."

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/09/11/rudest-man-in-linuxdom-rants-about-randomness-we-actually-know-what-we-are-doing-you-dont/

13 years ago

139 upvotes – 74 comments

Microsoft TerraServer (1998)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa226316(v=sql.70).aspx

13 years ago

128 upvotes – 50 comments

Twitter confirms IPO plans via Twitter

https://twitter.com/twitter/status/378261932148416512

13 years ago

126 upvotes – 13 comments

Audio pioneer Ray Dolby passes away

http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/12/audio-pioneer-ray-dolby-passes-away/

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 26 comments

A Sinatra-inspired micro web framework for Java

http://www.sparkjava.com/

13 years ago

121 upvotes – 93 comments

Pushed to the limit as a banking intern

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24049679

13 years ago

118 upvotes – 219 comments

Facebook deletes Social Fixer page, blocks page admins

http://socialfixer.com/blog/2013/09/12/beware-your-business-is-at-the-mercy-of-facebook-social-fixer-page-deleted-without-explanation/

13 years ago

111 upvotes – 89 comments

Teenagers and the Internet

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/sep/08/beeban-kidron-inreallife-interview-teenagers

13 years ago

107 upvotes – 120 comments

Introducing the Qt WebEngine

http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2013/09/12/introducing-the-qt-webengine/

13 years ago

106 upvotes – 36 comments

Scaling MongoDB at Mailbox

https://tech.dropbox.com/2013/09/scaling-mongodb-at-mailbox/

13 years ago

99 upvotes – 68 comments

Non-alphanumeric Backdoors

http://blog.sucuri.net/2013/09/ask-sucuri-non-alphanumeric-backdoors.html

13 years ago

98 upvotes – 11 comments

Show HN: 1,053,713 buildings in New York City, shaded by year of construction

http://bdon.org/2013/09/12/building-age-nyc/

13 years ago

96 upvotes – 34 comments

Cancer: A Computational Disease that AI Can Cure [video]

http://videolectures.net/aaai2010_tenenbaum_cac/

13 years ago

89 upvotes – 26 comments

Where's The Octopus? (2011) [video]

http://www.sciencefriday.com/video/08/05/2011/where-s-the-octopus.html

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 20 comments

A Social Network for Crohn’s Disease – Crohnology (YC S12)

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/518886/patients-take-control-of-their-health-care-online/

13 years ago

83 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: Formbuilder.js

http://dobtco.github.io/formbuilder/

13 years ago

78 upvotes – 14 comments

E-commerce Fraud Facts

http://blog.siftscience.com/five-ecommerce-fraud-facts/

13 years ago

77 upvotes – 45 comments

Startup Common Sense

http://42floors.com/blog/when-your-own-common-sense-leads-you-astray/

13 years ago

75 upvotes – 49 comments

Did the FBI Lean On Microsoft for Access to Its Encryption Software?

http://mashable.com/2013/09/11/fbi-microsoft-bitlocker-backdoor/

13 years ago

71 upvotes – 19 comments

Why Companies Founded By College Dropouts Rarely Hire College Dropouts

https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130911173545-8451-why-education-is-a-must-they-promised-flying-cars-instead-we-got-caffeine-spray?_mSplash=1

13 years ago

70 upvotes – 47 comments

Deis – An open source PaaS

http://deis.io/overview/

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 20 comments

Sexism In The Tech Industry Takes Center Stage

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/09/11/221052414/sexism-in-the-tech-industry-takes-center-stage

13 years ago

69 upvotes – 118 comments

What I learned bootstrapping a 6-figure business from school

http://danshipper.com/what-i-learned-bootstrapping-a-6-figure-business-from-school?utm_source=Dan%27s+Blog+List&utm_campaign=dfc66cbced-Newsletter_nice_design_17_8_11_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c18fe7384e-dfc66cbced-107279409

13 years ago

67 upvotes – 4 comments

Big Lessons from HackFwd

http://hackfwd.com/kthxbai

13 years ago

65 upvotes – 19 comments

Sigil

https://github.com/cupcake/sigil

13 years ago

★ 332 Go BSD-3-Clause
61 upvotes – 21 comments
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